Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

- Mickey Rooney

Best Quotes about Marriage

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

10.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

11.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

19.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

21.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

24.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

32.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.